Metro Revises Bus Routes

By Douglas FeaverBy Douglas FeaverSeptember 21, 1978

Metro is changing its bus schedules again, this time to coordinate them with the expanded subway service that begins Monday.

The new bus schedules detailed below will take effect on Sunday, but the first day of heavy impact will be Monday. On Monday the Metro subway will start staying open until midnight, Monday through Saturday, instead of closing at 8 p.m.

Beginning Sept. 30, the subway will operate on Saturdays for the first time. Saturday hours will be from 8 a.m. until midnight. There will be no Sunday subway service.

Many of the bus routes have been adjusted so that passengers may transfer from bus to train and train to bus during the expanded hours of subway service.

Extra bus service will be provided on many routes to accommodate late-evening and Saturday passengers.

In many cases, buses that ended their routes at subway stations but then continued downtown after the subway closed will operate only as far as the subway stations.

Minor schedule adjustments will be made on many routes and riders should check with the drivers for new timetables.

At the Pentagon bus terminal, above the subway station, new bus bay assignments are being made. That means riders accustomed to arriving, leaving or transferring to one particular bus bay may find their bus moved to another. Riders should check the new bus bay directory at the Pentagon this week.

Metro is also starting a new express bus service Monday from the Huntington Metro station parking lot to the National Airport Metro station. The Huntington station, just south of the Beltway on North Kings Highway, will be connected by rail to National Airport sometime late in 1981, according to the present Metro construction schedule. For details on the express buses, see Virginia Routes 11F and 11G, below.

No major changes are planned on bus routes not listed below. For more detailed information, call Metro's telephone service at 637-2437.

The Metrobus route changes:

Virginia Routes

Routes 1A, 1B and 1H - Weeknight and Saturday trips will terminate at the Rosslyn Metro station instead of 11th and E Streets NW.

Route 2A - Saturday trips will terminate at the Rosslyn Metro station instead of Union Station. Bus frequencies will be increased from every 60 minutes to every 30 minutes.

Route 2

Routes 3E, 3F, 3R, 3T and 3V - Weeknight and Saturday trips will terminate at the Rosslyn Metro station instead of 11th and E Streets NW.

Route 5S - Saturday trips will be rerouted via Gosnell Lane and Tyspring Street to serve Tysons Towers. Trips will terminate at the Rosslyn metro station instead of Farragut Square.

Routes 6A and 6B - Weeknight and Saturday trips will terminate at the Pentagon Metro station instead of Federal Triangle.

Route 6G - Rush hour trips will be extended to Braddock Road east of Early Street in fron of Minnie Howard Middle School.

Route 6L - All trips will be rerouted to the Pentagon Metro station. An extra trip from Park Center will be added at 7:18 a.m. and an additional trip from Potomac Park will be added at 4:15 p.m. weekdays.

Route 7F - Weeknight and Saturday trips will terminate at the Pentagon Metro station instead of Federal Triangle.

Route 10E - Weekday rush hour service will be eliminated. Alternate service is available via Routes 10S and 10T.

Routes 10S and 10T - Weekday, Saturday and Sunday trips will be extended to Hunting Towers via Washington Street. King Street, Columbus Street and Prince Street loop will be elminated.

Route 11A - New mid-day service to River Towers will be provided via a rerouting from Belieview Boulevard to Wakefield Drive and Potomac Avenue. Two additional round trips will leave Federal Triangle and Mount Vernon during weekday evenings and Saturday nights.

Route 11C - Weekday and Saturday trips will operate via Richmond Highway, Patrick Street, Gibbon Street and Franklin Street instead of via Fort Hunt Road, Bellehaven Road and the George Washington Memorial Parkway. Rush hour trips will be express and redesignated as Route 11G. Will make all stops in Fairfax County, and will stop at King and Washington streets in Alexandria and at National Airport.

Route 11F - This new routing provides express bus service between the Huntington Metro station fringe parking lot and National Airport and replaces service on old Route 9D. Buses will leave Mount Vernon at 6:23 a.m., 6:38 a.m., 6:53 a.m., 7:08 a.m. and 7:38 a.m. They will stop at Huntington at 6:47 a.m., 7:02 a.m., 7:32 a.m. and 8:02 a.m. Buses will leave National Airport at 5 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 5:45 p.m. and 6 p.m. Buses will make all stops in Fairfax County but will stop only at King and Washington streets in Alexandria.

Route 11P - New service to National Airport Metro station will be provided. Trips will leave Belvoir and Hudson roads at 6:20 a.m. and 6:50 a.m. and the Pentagon at 4:45 p.m. and 5:15 p.m. Limited stop restrictions will remain the same, except that boarding and alighting will be permitted at National Airport station.

Route 11T - New express service between Mount Vernon, National Airport and Federal Triangle will be provided by this route, which will use the 14th Street corridor instead of Memorial Bridge. Limited stop restrictions will remain the same, except that boarding and alighting will be permitted at National Airport Metro station. Trips will leave Belvoir and Hudson roads at 6:35 a.m., 7:05 a.m., 7:20 a.m. and 7:35 a.m. and Federal Triangle at 4:20 p.m., 4:54 p.m., 5:19 p.m. and 5:34 p.m.

Route 11W - Rush-hour limited stop service will be redesignated Route 11Z. Local trips will be designated Route 11W.

Route 12F - Weeknight and Saturday trips will be redesignated Route 12A and will operate to the Pentagon Metro station instead of to Federal Triangle.

Route 14A - Weeknight and Saturday trips will terminate at the Pentagon Metro station instead of Federal Triangle.

Route 15B - To provide faster service to the Pentagon City Metro station, all trips will be rerouted via South 15th Street and South Hayes Street instead of South Joyce Street and Army-Navy Drive.

Route 15F - Weeknight and Saturday trips will terminate at the Pentagon Metro station instead of Federal Triangle, and will be designated Route 15A.

Routes 16B, 16C and 16E - Saturday trips will operate every 20 minutes. Extra trips during weekdays will be operated on Route 16E from Culmore at 9:22 a.m. Additional service on Route 16B will leave the Pentagon Metro station at 3:53 p.m. weekdays.

Route 29E - Trips will be rerouted via the Pentagon Metro station and the 14th Street Bridge corridor to 10th and Constitution Avenue, using E Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. Some rush hour trips will bypass Pentagon station.

District of Columbia Routes Route 40 - All trips will terminate at Union Station when the rail system is open.

Route 42 - Weeknight service will be increased to every 30 minutes downtown.

Route 46 - Extra service will be provided between the Kennedy Center and Mount Pleasant when the subway is open.

Route 60 - All trips will operate via the Federal Center SW Metro station when the subway is open.

Routes 80 and 81 - All trips will operate through the Brookland Metro station when the subway is open.

Route 82 - All trips will terminate at Rhode Island Avenue Metro station until midnight. An additional trip to Hollywood will depart Rhode Island Avenue Metro station at 11:30 p.m. weeknights. See Route B6.

Routes 84, 86 and 88 - All trips will terminate at Rhode Island Avenue Metro station when the subway is open. See Route B6.

Route B6 - Additional service will be provided between the Metro Center and Rhode Island Avenue Metro stations when the rail system is open in lieu of the present through service on Routes 82, 84, 86 and 88. Route D4 - All trips will terminate at Farragut Square on weeknights and Saturdays when the subway is open.

Route D8 - Additional trips on Route D8 will be operated on weeknights between Union Station and Ivy City. Route D8 will provide service between Union Station and Washington Hospital Center until 8:30 p.m. on Saturdays, with Route D8 service provided thereafter between Union Station and Ivy City.

Route H6 - All trips will operate between the Kennedy Center and the Brookland Metro station when the subway is open.

Route K2 - Saturday trips will operate between the Fort Totten and Takoma Metro stations. There will be no change to weekday service.

Route K4 - All trips will operate between the Metro Center and Fort Totten Metro stations when the subway is open.

Route M6 - Saturday service will be established.

Route N4 - All trips will terminate at Farragut Square when the subway is open.

Maryland Routes

Route 82 - All trips will terminate at Rhode Island Avenue Metro station until midnight. An additional trip to Hollywood will depart Rhode Island Avenue Metro station at 11:30 p.m. weeknights.

Routes 84, 86 and 88 - All trips will terminate at the Rhode Island Avenue station when the subway is open.

Route A2 - All trips will terminate at the Potomac Avenue Metro station when the subway is open.

Route B12 - All trips terminate at the Potomac Avenue Metro station when the subway is open.

Route C1 - Service to CIA-Langley will be eliminated. New rush hour service between Glen Echo and Friendship Heights will be operated via Wisconsin Avenue, Old Georgetown Road, Wilson Lane, River Road and Goldsboro Road. Trips will operate every 30 minutes, replacing Routes C2 and J7.

Routes C12 and C14 - Through service to downtown on Saturday will terminate at the Potomac Avenue Metro station.

Route D12 - All trips will terminate at the Potomac Avenue Metro station.

Route F4 - An additional trip to New Carrollton will leave the Silver Spring Metro station at 10 p.m. weekdays.

Route H12 - Evening and Saturday trips will terminate at the Potomac Avenue Metro station when the subway is open.

Route J2 - Additional trips to Montgomery Mall will leave the Silver Spring Metro station at 10:15 p.m. and 11:15 p.m. weeknights. An additional trip to Montgomery Mall will leave the Silver Spring Metro station at 10:15 p.m. Saturdays.

Route J7 - Service eliminated; passengers will continue to be served by Route T1 and C1.

Route J12 - All trips will terminate at the Potomac Avenue Metro station when the subway is open.

Route K6 - All trips will terminate at the Fort Totten Metro station when the subway is open. Additional trips to White Oak will leave the Fort Totten Metro station at 11:30 p.m. and 12:30 weekdays.

Route K12 - All trips will terminate at the Potomac Avenue Metro station when the subway is open.

Routes R2 and R6 - All trips from Maryland will terminate at the Brookland Metro station when the subway is open.

Route E12 - All trips will terminate at the Stadium-Armory Metro station when the subway is open.

Route T1 - Additional trips will be added to increase rush-hour intervals between buses to every 30 minutes.

Route T2 - All trips will be rerouted to Montgomery College when the subway is open. Some rush hour trips will terminate or originate at Montgomery College instead of Normandy Farms.

Route T3 - New mid-day service to Woodley Gardens will be provided. Weekdays trips during mid-day will be extended from Normandy Farms to Montgomery College via T2 route to Montgomery Avenue and Nelson Street, and then via Nelson Street, Mannakee Street and Montgomery College.

Route T4 and T6 - Weeknight and Saturday trips will be extended from Friendship Heights to Dupont Circle station when the subway is open.

Route T6 - New rush hour service to the Promenade Apartments will be operated by extending some Naval Medical Center trips via Rockville Pike and Pooks Hill Road.

Route T11 - All trips will terminate at the Stadium-Armory Metro station when the subway is open. New trips to Belair will be operated from the Stadium-Armory Metro station at 9:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. weeknights.

Route T12 - All trips will terminate at the Rhode Island Avenue Metro station when the subways is open. Additional trips to Belair will leave the Rhode Island Avenue Metro station at 11:35 p.m. weeknights and Saturdays.

Route T14 - All trips will terminate at the Rhode Island Avenue Metro station when the subway is open.

Route W12 - All trips will terminate at the Federal Center SW Metro station when the rail system is open.